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Is JRiver the best choice to replace itunes on Mac Pro Tower running El Capitan
JimH:
Could you make one or two specific suggestions?
wedgeworld1701:
--- Quote from: JimH on January 21, 2020, 04:27:57 pm ---Could you make one or two specific suggestions?
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Sure.
1. It would be nice if a song could be deleted from library or playlist by hitting one of the two DELETE keys. This is instead of using the drop down menu. Hitting the DELETE key on a Mac in JRiver takes you back a level. So if you hit delete on a song in a playlist you suddenly jump to the WELCOME TO JRiver page
2. I often like to change the tags (Artist, album, year, track number etc) all at once for a whole album. One of the few things I like in itunes is that you can select all the tracks in an album, hit COMMAND I (Basically GET INFO) and open up a screen to update all the tags for the whole album at once. Unless I'm missing something JRiver allows you to update one thing at a time, for example you can change or add "artist" to many songs at once, or "album" to all the songs in an album but not "artist" and "album".
I'll note some of the others as they come up. I often forget to write them down as they happen. These are the ones I use the most often as imported files sometimes don't have the tags they had in other software and I often delete songs from playlists.
I love all the features the software has, though it hangs often on my Mac Pro, music keeps playing but nothing responds. No keyboard or mouse response, but the computer and other applications are fine (64GB of memory, 2 SSD drives OS X 10.11).
Thanks
JimH:
--- Quote from: wedgeworld1701 on January 23, 2020, 07:27:34 pm ---2. I often like to change the tags (Artist, album, year, track number etc) all at once for a whole album. One of the few things I like in itunes is that you can select all the tracks in an album, hit COMMAND I (Basically GET INFO) and open up a screen to update all the tags for the whole album at once. Unless I'm missing something JRiver allows you to update one thing at a time, for example you can change or add "artist" to many songs at once, or "album" to all the songs in an album but not "artist" and "album".
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You can copy tags from one file (ctrl-C) and paste them to many (ctrl-shift V) if you select them first.
If you want to change the same tags for many files, select them first.
wedgeworld1701:
--- Quote from: JimH on January 24, 2020, 07:15:36 am ---You can copy tags from one file (ctrl-C) and paste them to many (ctrl-shift V) if you select them first.
If you want to change the same tags for many files, select them first.
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Tried it and it worked. Thank you.
Also notice that mouse clicking has to be very specifically placed in JRiver. Sometimes I can't get things to take the click.
Sometimes have trouble moving the application around, like I can't grab it with the mouse if I'm not in exactly the right space.
I'll keep trying to work on it. I really need to read up more. I struggle to get my collection to sort they way I'm used to. I assume it is simple and I just have not read the right instructions. I like the whole collection to sort by Artist first (A -Z) then that artists albums in order by year, then the next artist and so on. I'm doing something wrong.
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